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 Tyler |
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April 07, 2005 05:26:43am |
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Re: RIYL, or, genre of music |
what does everyone think about starting a wiki page for this? "archive.org/audio genres" type thing .. people could go in there, enter their favorite band and just put a few words as for it's sound or genre.. as more and more people go in and add their favorites, the full 1000 artists will eventaully get represented... how do we do a wiki page? (I don't know too much about them).. it could look like this:
Archive.org public user's input on artist genres
Mermen - Surf rock, jammy
Jason Mraz - singer/songwriter, folk
Howie Day - Singer/songwriter, looping pedals
Zwan - rock and roll
you know? and people could add words to each band's line that they think represents it... each contribution makes it more and more descriptive.. then if someone is curious what ____ band sounds like, they could be directed to the off-site wiki page for the genres and see for themselves.. thoughts? I too would love the genres idea but i know it's a lot of code... :(
also the RIYL could also be incorporated.. the first line woutl be artist name - genres... then the second line is: if you like Mermen, you'd like: Surf Coasters, etc.. (and just put bands that are on the archive)..
this seems doable and easy and can be done in a few days and be an ongoing thing.. if no one knows how to do a wiki page, i'll learn myself and post a link in this thread with my limited band knowledge and info..
we should also keep it alphabetical too, a's on top, z's on the bottom...
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Diana Hamilton |
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April 07, 2005 06:20:24am |
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Re: RIYL, or, genre of music |
A wiki page wouldn't really lend itself to this kind of huge listing, unfortunately. Like, this page
http://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=BandAbbreviations
fell into disuse because it was just too labor intensive to keep up- and you have to depend on volunteers for a wiki. (And you have to take measures to keep spammers off nowadays too. :( )
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Itchin |
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April 07, 2005 07:51:01am |
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Re: RIYL, or, genre of music |
Not too familiair with wiki-pages myself, but I could vision a database driven poll-kind-of-thing where registered users can check categories that apply to a band (spacey, jammy, rock and roll, bluegrass, funk, etc.). The registered part might help in delaying trolls and if one can't post text you keep the spammers out. It would be rather nifty to see the results. Imagine: band ___ comes up as 50% rock and roll, 10% blues and 39% random noise and 1% hiphop (with 328 people adding input for that particular band).
Now I wish I could put something like that together myself :-) It does not have to be exactly a part of the LMA and could be administered somewhere else, although it would be easier for 'the user' to keep it all together, even without tying it into the collection.
This post was modified by Itchin on 2005-04-07 14:51:01
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